Greek (Roman) Gods/goddesses & Mythic Figures

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Goddess of beauty, love, desire, and pleasure

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Aphrodite (Venus)

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God of music, arts, knowledge, healing, plague, prophecy, poetry, manly beauty, and archery

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Apollo (Helios)

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God of war, bloodshed, and violence

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Ares (Mars)

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Virgin goddess of the hunt, wilderness, animals, young girls, childbirth, and plague

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Artemis (Diana)

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Goddess of reason, wisdom, intelligence, skill, peace, warfare, battle strategy, and handicrafts

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Athena (Minerva)

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Goddess of grain, agriculture, harvest, growth, and nourishment

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Demeter (Ceres)

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God of wine, fruitfulness, parties, festivals, madness, chaos, drunkenness, vegetation, and ecstasy

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Dionysius (Bacchus)

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God of the underworld and the dead

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Hades (Pluto)

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God of fire, metalworking, and crafts

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Hephaestus (Vulcan)

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Queen of the gods, and goddess of marriage, women, childbirth, heirs, kings, and empires

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Hera (Juno)

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God of boundaries, travel, communication, trade, language, and writing

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Hermes (Mercury)

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Virgin goddess of the hearth, home, and chastity

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Hestia (Vesta)

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God of the sea, rivers, floods, droughts, and earthquakes

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Poseidon (Neptune)

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King of the gods, ruler of Mount Olympus, and god of the sky, weather, thunder, lightning, law, order, and justice

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Zeus (Jupiter)

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Titan of harvests and personification of destructive time. The leader of the Titans, who overthrew his father Uranus only to be overthrown in turn by his son, Zeus

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Cronus (Saturn)

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Titaness of fertility, motherhood and the mountain wilds. She is the sister and consort of Cronus, and mother of Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter, and Hestia.

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Rhea (Ops)

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The personification of nothingness from which all of existence sprang. Depicted as a void. Initially genderless, later on described as female

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Chaos

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The god of love and attraction

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Eros (Cupid)

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Personification of the Earth (Mother Earth); mother of the Titans

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Gaia (Terra)

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The god of the heavens (Father Sky); father of the Titans

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Uranus

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The god of the deepest, darkest part of the underworld; aka namesake of the Tartarean pit

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Tartarus

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Demi-god known famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures including the 12 Labours

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Hercules

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Legendary musician, poet, and prophet capable of charming all living things with his music

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Orpheus

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God of the wild, shepherds and flocks, nature of mountain wilds and rustic music, and companion of the nymphs. He has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat

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Pan (Faunus)

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The first human woman created by the gods, who later opened a box releasing all the evils of humanity

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Pandora

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Mythical king of Athens famed for slaying the Minotaur in the Labyrinth at Crete

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Theseus

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Legendary founder of Mycenae who rescued Andromeda from the sea monster and slayed Medusa

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Perseus

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A terrifying beast with a serpent for a tail, a goat's body and a lion's head

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Chimera

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One of the best known creatures in Greek mythology, he is a winged divine stallion also known as a horse usually depicted as pure white in color

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Pegasus

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Often called the "hound of Hades", it is the monstrous multi-headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld to prevent the dead from leaving

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Cerberus

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The river that separates the world of the living from the world of the dead manned by Charon

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Styx

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Evil, disgraced King who infamously sacrificed his son and was punished by water always receding before he could take a drink; now a proverbial term for temptation without satisfaction

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Tantalus

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King of Corinth punished for his self-aggrandizing and deceitfulness by being forced to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it come back to hit him, repeating this action for eternity

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Sisyphus

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Famously saw his own reflection in the water and fell in love with it; stared at his reflection until he died.

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Narcissus

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Stole a lightning bolt from Zeus and gave it to mankind for fire; was chained to a rock as punishment for 1000 years

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Prometheus

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Beautiful half sister of Aphrodite who indirectly began the Trojan War

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Helen

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Home of the Greek gods

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Mount Olympus

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A wise woman with the ability to see the future

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Oracle

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A group of three mythological goddesses often depicted as weavers of a tapestry on a loom, with the tapestry dictating the destinies of men

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The Fates

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Inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts in Greek mythology. They were considered the source of the knowledge embodied in the poetry, lyric songs, and myths that were related orally for centuries in these ancient cultures

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The Muses